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Follow up to previous postings on Blackwater, this press release from Committee on Oversight: “State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard announced his resignation today. In response to the announcement, Chairman Waxman released the following statement: Mr. Krongards decision removes an enormous distraction from the Inspector Generals office and will allow the office to focus …
Treasury Economic Update 12/7/2007: “Today’s data indicate that the labor market remains healthy, with a low unemployment rate and continued job growth. We expect the economic expansion to continue even with the challenges we face in the housing and credit markets.” – Assistant Secretary Phillip Swagel, December 7, 2007
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that their teams of officers who track down criminal aliens and immigration fugitives arrested almost twice as many in fiscal year 2007 than in the previous year. For the first time since records have been kept, the nation’s fugitive alien population is on the decline. In the …
Follow up to November 12, 2007 posting, U.S. Sentencing Commission Received 33,000 Letters on Retroactivity, news today that “[t]he U.S. Sentencing Commission, which in November 2007 issued new guidelines for convictions involving crack cocaine, is considering making those guidelines retroactive. The Commission estimates that 19,500 current federal prison inmates would be eligible for a reduced …
Follow up to December 6, 2007 posting, Report: CIA Destroyed Videos of Interrogations, this press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Reps. Robert Scott, William Delahunt and Jerrold Nadler sent letters to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gen. Michael Hayden and Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting details about today’s reports …
“The Interagency Counterinsurgency Initiative (ICI) seeks to inform and help shape relevant USG policy and programs by incorporating the theory and history of counters to organized movements that use subversion or violence rather than established political processes to undermine or overthrow governments, with the goal of focusing appropriate elements of diplomacy, defense, and development on …
New York Times: “The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agencys custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program, according to current and former government officials…The destruction of the tapes raises questions …
European Commission: A Handbook for Citizen-centric eGovernment – “Issued by the cc:eGov project, this Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of what citizen-centric government services should strive for. It gives recommendations on access to these services, offers front- and back-office solutions and emphasizes the importance of relationship building between those delivering and those receiving the services. …
D-2008-026 Management of the Iraq Security Forces Fund in Southwest Asia – Phase III, November 30, 2007 (Project No. D2007-D000LQ-0141.000), released December 6, 2007.
Stabilization and Reconstruction: Actions Are Needed to Develop a Planning and Coordination Framework and Establish the Civilian Reserve Corps, GAO-08-39, November 06, 2007 DOD Schools: Additional Reporting Could Improve Accountability for Academic Achievement of Students with Dyslexia, GAO-08-70, December 06, 2007
Press release: “The U.S. adult correctional population incarcerated or in the community reached 7.2 million men and women, an increase of 159,500 during the year, the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today in a new report. About 3.2 percent of the U.S. adult population, or 1 in every 31 adults, …
White House Fact Sheet: Helping American Families Keep Their Homes, December 6, 2007 – “President Bush outlined steps the Administration is taking to help American homeowners and called on Congress to join him in delivering relief to homeowners in need.” Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. at Press Conference to Announce Framework to Help …
